Hadi Bakalim: Let's get started

Ah, I recognize that melody…? As soon as the first wistful notes of the violin ring out, many visitors prick up their ears. Isn’t that the theme song from “Hababam Sınıfı”? Suddenly, Carmen belts out her famous aria, closely followed by a frenzied Rossini number, then Turkish pop music again—arranged for classical orchestral instruments—alternating with lively Berlin operetta duets. Hadi Bakalım—Let’s Go! is both the name and motto of this “Best of Operndolmuş” concert program, which, with plenty of comic-opera humor, in a very unpretentious yet always surprising way and in several languages, calls out, “Come on over and see what happens!”